I have a Synology 6600 router, and I love it's OS and feature set, but it only has 1 2.5Gb port, and I just got 2.5G fiber service at my house so I'd really like to take advantage of all the speed to ...

Just this last week several customers have ironically all asked me the exact same question. “Can we use an Ethernet switch instead of a router for our Internet EBGP peering to our ISP(s)?” While ...

Standing in the networking aisle of an electronics retail store, anybody could mistakenly pick up a router instead of an Ethernet switch or vice versa. The product packages as well as the devices ...

The three devices commonly used for linking components together on a network are hubs, switches and routers. Though similar in function they differ in capability and utilization. Hubs and switches ...

Wi-Fi standards moved on, but your old router can still do something useful ...

The set up is a little weird. I won't get into why, but the PCs are spread all over the house and the switch and router are not physically anywhere near each other. I have run a lot of cat 5e and cat ...

It is hard to say what will happen first: Switching and routing will merge, or an independent networking operating system that can do both will emerge. If Arrcus, which dropped out of stealth mode ...

If you're looking to run wired connections but only have a handful of Ethernet ports on your router, this inexpensive gadget ...

FRAMINGHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The worldwide Ethernet switch market (Layer 2/3) recorded $6.8 billion in revenue in the first quarter of 2019 (1Q19), an increase of 7.8% year over year. Meanwhile ...

IP storage networks have emerged as a versatile and inexpensive alternative to traditional Fibre Channel SANs, and IP SAN deployments -- primarily iSCSI -- are appearing in businesses of all sizes.